The Walking Dead season four, episode nine: After the part one finale excitement it was back to the usual shuffling pace

The Walking Dead is back – but could it live up to the excitement of the first half of the season? (Picture: AMC)

ZOMG! I’m so excited! The Walking Dead season four returned tonight! Superlatives like explosive, shocking, unbelievable, stunning have been thrown around in the previews!

Last time we left Rick and the crew, it was all out war – Rick and the Governor finally went mano a mano, with the Governor ending up impaled on Michonne’s sword, Hershel was decapitated, Daryl was blowing up tanks, the prison was busted, zombies were eating babies, and everybody was shooting everybody!

Looks like we’re back to the ambling shuffle pace of the usual episodes. Sure, Daryl is everyone’s favourite character, but instead of featuring him at all, let’s just have Rick and Carl wandering around, grunting at each other.

It seems Carl has become an even bigger little s**t. Halfway through the episode, Rick gets so bored of his storyline that he falls asleep on a couch, and Carl can’t even wake him, so has to go off scowling at zombies by himself.

When he can finally take no more of Carl’s whingeing, he does his most hilarious zombie impression to give Carl a fright.

Probably not a good idea to greet your skittish son with BBBBLLLLEEEEUUURRRGGHHH when he pointing a gun at you head. Anyway nothing’s happening here, so thankfully we get to check back in with Michonne…. who’s wandering round aimlessly also.

Er, I think you might want to RUN!! (Picture: Gene Page/AMC)

Luckily, Michonne’s Katana – now the most interesting character in the show – pops out every now and then to relieve some walkers of their heads.

Michonne is on her own again, so doesn’t even have anyone to grunt at. So she grabs herself a new set of pets, de-arming and de-jawing a couple of zombies. They are inexplicably, immediately submissive – didn’t she have her last set of pets captive for ages before they lost their bloodlust? And why doesn’t everyone rope themselves a couple of Walkers, if that’s all it takes to keep them away?

Speaking of her last pets, the one interesting thing to happen in an hour is a brief and unsettling flashback revealing them to be her boyfriend and his mate… but then she wakes up and goes straight back to strolling around and sulking.

So after tonight’s premiere, one big question still remains unanswered: Are we going to have to wait for the last episode before this gets interesting again?

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